Intercultural and educational challenges for sustainable tourism

Authors

  • Domira Fernandes de Araujo Fundação Visconde de Cairu
  • Maria da Conceição Pereira Ramos Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/revistacenario.v2i3.18405

Keywords:

Feducation, tourism, intercultural, sustainability.

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on intercultural and educational challenges for sustainable tourism that fosters the integration of educational and inclusive practices promoted when human relationships become harmonious and cooperative. Intercultural implies relationship, dialogue and communication between different cultures, across individuals and cultures possess these groups, which meet and interact with individuals, groups and institutions from different universes. Also involves an exchange between different areas of knowledge whose interdisciplinary looks to be able to lead organizations to develop proposals aimed at education inclusion, seeking concepts interact intercultural, intercultural education and sustainable tourism. Therefore there is a lack in researches that seek to make a relation between education and sustainable tourism, the reason of this study, in which we performed a bibliographic research in Visconde de Cairu Foundation and Porto University Libraries. Dialogue is important these relationships from the perspective of interdisciplinarity and sustainability, making the tourism industry is generating positive effects on local populations and economies, environmental protection, preservation of culture and tradition and the rational use of natural resources. These theoretical considerations point to the need for communication between different cultures, especially in education and tourism, with emphasis on interculturalism, in light of the literature on the subject, in view of a more equitable and sustainable society.

Author Biographies

  • Domira Fernandes de Araujo, Fundação Visconde de Cairu

    Professora da graduação e pós-graduação da Fundação Visconde de Cairu, nas áreas do turismo sustentável, planejamento recursos humanos, administração. pesquisadora, membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Tecnologias Sociais e Formação Corporativa, do Programa Observatório de Desenvolvimento Humano-PODH

  • Maria da Conceição Pereira Ramos, Universidade do Porto

    Professora da Faculdade de Economia (FEP) da Universidade do Porto (UP) - Portugal. Doutora em Ciência Econômica pela Universidade de Paris I ”“ Sorbonne (França). Mestre em Economia dos Recursos Humanos pela Universidade de Paris I ”“ Sorbonne. Licenciada em Economia pela Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal. Investigadora no Centro de Estudos das Migrações e das Relações Interculturais (CEMRI), Universidade Aberta

Published

2014-12-12

Issue

Section

Artigos

How to Cite

Intercultural and educational challenges for sustainable tourism. (2014). Cenário: Revista Interdisciplinar Em Turismo E Território, 2(3), 89-105. https://doi.org/10.26512/revistacenario.v2i3.18405

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